The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-10-22
FEMININE FANcIKS.
San Francisco Pusa.

| young lady pushing her way along iu the crowd on Kearney street the other day and was surprised to sec So much spirit manifested by a girl of her dainty appearance, When she met several ladies she would crowd closely to the street edge or the wall, but when men came along she marched boldly between them. Calling the at tention of another lady Ia her strange manner, she said:
 Oh, always do that, too, un- derstand 1t; she's supes~titious,"
 "How Is that?" asked.
 "Well, you see 1t brings good luck to separate men when you meet them, but nothing breeds misfortune so surely AS to divide two women on tho street."
 looked to see if slae wore testing. but saw at once that judge could not be moro serious
 And do you believe that nonsonsc2' l asked.
 "Why, s'pose it's foolish" she answered, "but knew If ever do something happens, Now, just yes- terlay was with another lady and was ashamed to turn out and we went right between two women, and at din- ner l swallowed boothpick and came near choking to death."
 "But you didn's ,lie2" suggested.
 No, but l was awiNlly scared"
 That evening went to a party and tried to find out the pet superstition of each girl danced with. And they all have them. One wouldn't 20 un- der leaning ladder, another woWbl be sure ot beoea,ing ill if she saw the moon over her left shoulder, another would not read All cpitaph for foar of losing her memory. One girl told ma she could stop dogs howl by taking off her shoe and splitting in h. In drawing her kerohlef from her bosom narrow slip of paper iuttcred to the ground on which were some hicro- glyphics, "Oh, my charm Y she ex- claimed. supposed sho had lost an article of jcwclry and searching about for 1t when she seized upon the scrap of paper as though 1t were deed to n San Diego corner lot. My curiosity was aroused, and she explained that it WAS charm insuring suocess In under takings, purchased hy her at great price from all Egyptian fortune teller In Paris, and that it's possession alone amounted to nothing, but it must be put into the pocket ar In the bosom of dress during the recital of an Egyptian verse. lf one failed to re- member that, however, the Lords prayer might be substituted.
 In the midst of an cntrnncInR waltz with one lady she suddenly paused and pressed her hand spasmodIcaliy to her upper lip.
 w hai is iti" i asked.
 'l was SO afraid should snceze," she remarked. "l wouldn't for any - thing tonight"
 "Why tonight more thanany other timer"
 "Oh, it's Friday, and 'snccze on Fri- day sneezc to your sorrow' And 10 comes true, too, If ever do forget. Did you ever hear the rhyme: l snccze on Monday. sneeze for danger, | On Tuesday for \ stranger. | On Wednesday for . letter. On Thursday Tor something better. On Friday for your sorrow, | On Saturday, com pany for Co morrow
 I always try to snecze on Satur- day." she added naivcly l have taken notes since then and find there Is not one of the sweet crea. lures that has not her pet snpersti- tious whim. have little friend on Van Ness avenue who would go to church with her sealskin jacket wrong side out if by any improbability she happened to get 1t on that way, rather than incur the bad luck sure to over- take her by taking 1t off to change 1t. l know A girl on Fourteenth street, in Oakland, who becomes quite radiant when her dressmaker is obliged to rip a seam she has just scwed, as she k sure she will live to wear the garment out. remember visiting ranch where bees were kept and the hostess telling us that honey was failure that year on account of their neglect ing to rap on the bee house to tell the occupants that her father had died. "Iie died very suddcnly,' she said pa- thctically, "and in the surprise and hurry and all we forgot all about 1t until daylight, and 1t was too late then, for he'd been dead four hours, and the bees must be told within the hour or you'll lose 'em all, and sure enough we did"
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